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Renovated apartment in Tokyo has storage pockets sewn into its walls

October 14, 2017 Ali Morris 0

Daisuke Motogi Architecture has completed an apartment renovation in Tokyo that features a bathroom and office wrapped in fabric walls with pockets for storing clutter. Located in the quiet residential district of Naka-Meguro in Tokyo, the small 43.82 square-metre apartment was refurbished on a very tight budget. Although the architects originally wanted to change the

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Tokyo kindergarten by Tezuka Architects lets children run free on the roof

October 1, 2017 India Block 0

The oval-shaped roof deck of this playful Tokyo kindergarten allows children to play and run endless laps around it – a feature that has just won it the 2017 Moriyama RAIC International Prize. Completed by Tezuka Architects 10 years ago, Fuji Kindergarten is located in the Tachikawa suburb of the city. It accommodates 600 children aged between two and six.

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Jasper Morrison creates house-like layout for Tokyo’s Good Design Store

July 27, 2017 Emma Tucker 0

Jasper Morrison’s first interior design project in Japan is a Tokyo shop that mimics the layout of a typical house and garden. The British designer created the Good Design Store as a retail space for Japan’s Good Design Award, a 60-year-old programme that gives a seal of approval to outstanding examples of design. His aim was to make the store

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Nendo designs Tokyo store interior to look like “melted ice cream cake”

July 18, 2017 Lucy Wildsmith 0

Stacked soil walls resemble layers of cake in this chocolate and ice cream shop in Kichijoji, Tokyo, designed by Japanese studio Nendo. Glace et Chocolat has been designed as a sister store to adjoining patisserie À Tes Souhaits!. The interior features striped soil walls of varying tones, made to appear like a cut ice cream cake with layers of different

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Muji to open hotels in China and Japan

July 14, 2017 Eleanor Gibson 0

Japanese retailer Muji is set to open hotels in Shenzhen, China and Tokyo, Japan, which will be styled with the minimalist brand’s furnishings and products. The first Muji Hotel will open in Shenzhen later this year, while the second has just broken ground in Tokyo’s Chūō City and is slated for completion in 2019. While details about both projects are currently vague, Business

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Chop + Archi cuts triangular lightwells into corners of house in Tokyo

July 12, 2017 Eleanor Gibson 0

Japanese architecture studio Chop + Archi has used trio of courtyards to make the most of the sharp “dead space” corners of this house, located on an almost triangular plot in Tokyo. Situated on a south-eastern corner plot in a dense residential area in Tokyo’s Setagaya ward, Kamiuma House provides the home for a couple and

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Tomomi Kito remodels Tokyo home to accommodate four generations of the same family

July 1, 2017 Lucy Wildsmith 0

Japanese studio Tomomi Kito Architect & Associates has renovated the interior of an 1970s house in Tokyo to provide a open-planned home for multiple generations of the same family. The Tokyo firm wsa tasked with remodelling the two-storey timber structure to house the  young family, as well as the wife’s parents and her grandmother in a project it named House for 4

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Frank Lloyd Wright merged eastern and western architecture at Tokyo’s Imperial Hotel

June 15, 2017 Eleanor Gibson 0

Our Frank Lloyd Wright 150th anniversary series ends with the American architect’s best-known building in Asia, the now-demolished Imperial Hotel, where he combined his western design principles and a fascination with Japan. After travelling to Japan in 1905, Wright developed a keen interest in Japanese art and architecture. He was therefore keen to win the bid to

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